This is a general Urology opportunity and sub-specialty interest is welcome.
Clinic Hours: It will be a Monday – Friday schedule, 8:00am – 5:00pm. You will have 2 days in the clinic and 2 days in the OR with a ½ day of admin.
Office /Clinic Procedures: Cystoscopies, bladder biopsies, prostate biopsies, laser, etc. Cystos are done in the clinic procedure room. They use Ambu disposable scopes in the clinic.
Office Volumes/ Pattern: Current time for New Patient Evals: 30 mins, Follow-Up: 15 mins. Average busy day in clinic: 30 - 40 patients.
Surgery: Block time first come/first serve. Start time 7:30am, performs 7-cases/block day.
Procedures Performed: Urethroscopy, Urethan Slings, Kidney Stones; Laser Prostate, etc.
OR Turnaround Time: Less than 45 minutes, best in the entire MedStar system.
POSITION SUMMARY
You will be employed by MedStar Medical Group. MedStar St. Mary’s Hospital is the busiest outpatient service within Medstar. There is a new DaVinci Xi robot for a trained Urologist.
We have 5 operating rooms and a Minor Room. We use 5 of them Monday-Friday. We have an OR utilization rate in excess of 90%. The Minor Room is available to schedule as additional surgeons are hired. MedStar’s Perioperative Governance Committee (PGC) regularly discusses block time allocation.
We have a team that does all the pre-surgery clearances several days before to make sure all the necessary documentation is in place. The anesthesiologist and surgeon will check in with the patient prior to performing the procedure.
Patients start to arrive at 5:15am and cases start at 7:30am. We typically will have two rooms going until 5:30pm, and one room until 7:30pm. However, we will keep as many rooms as possible going until all the add-on cases have been taken care of. A call to the charge nurse will get your add-on case on the schedule.
Call is a very manageable 1:4 (6 or 7 days/month). This breaks down to 4 weekdays/month (Monday – Thursday) and 1 weekend (Friday – Sunday). Additional call over this amount is compensated; $625 weekdays and $938 weekends. They have an NP that will help cover call.